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LAUNCHKEY

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User Guide version V1.02

Introduction

Launchkey [MK3] is Novation's intuitive and fully integrated MIDI keyboard controller for making tracks in Ableton Alive, designed to give you everything you need to create and play your music. Made for creators of all abilities, Launchkey gives yous inspirational tools to expand your musical vocabulary.
Launchkey gives you unrivaled access to Ableton Live'southward functions, including Capture MIDI, rail arm, quantize, click and loop controls. Not using Ableton Live? No problem, Launchkey also has full integration with Logic and Reason, plus out-of-the-box functionality with other DAWs including Studio Ane, Cubase, and Pro Tools, via HUI.
Inspirational features include Scale and Chord Modes and a powerful arpeggiator, which together extend your musical capabilities and let you create in new ways. Calibration Fashion transposes keys and pads played to notes in the calibration selected; chord modes let you lot trigger complex chords with one finger, while the powerful arpeggiator gets melodies moving.
Launchkey also works standalone; the total-size 5-pin MIDI output works with any MIDI-compatible device. Use Novation Components to update firmware and configure Custom Modes. Nosotros recommend updating the firmware right away so your Launchkey is upwardly to appointment and fully featured.

Key Features

Designed for Ableton Alive: immediate access to all the controls you need.
Additional DAW support: Full integration with Logic and Reason, out-of-the-box functionality with Studio One, Cubase, Pro Tools, and more than via HUI.
Produce and perform: 25, 37, 49, or 61-note velocity-sensitive keyboard and xvi velocity-sensitive RGB backlit pads
Shape your sound: tweak instruments and effects to perfection using 8 rotary encoders – and 9 faders (Launchkey 49 and 61 but)
Automatically map scales to the keys: never hit a wrong annotation
Become creative: three-chord modes allow you to trigger chords with 1 finger, the powerful arpeggiator gets melodies moving
Transport and mixer control: straight operate playback, recording, pans, mutes, and sends
Connect to your hardware: 5-pin MIDI Out works with any MIDI-compatible device
Control anything MIDI: create custom mappings for any performance or studio rig using Novation Components
Make music immediately: Ableton Live Calorie-free, virtual instruments, and furnishings plugins, and sample packs included

Box Contents

Launchkey 25, 37, 49 or 61
USB Type-A to B cablevision (1.5 meters)
Safety Instructions

Getting Started

The 'Like shooting fish in a barrel Start Tool' provides a step-by-step guide to setting upwards your Launchkey. This simple online tool will guide you through the process of registering the device and accessing the software parcel.
When connecting Launchkey to your reckoner, information technology will announced as a Mass Storage Device (MSD), just like a USB bulldoze. Open the bulldoze and and then open 'Click Here to Go Started. rule. This will open up the EasyStart Tool in your web browser.

Back up

For additional data and support visit the Novation Help Eye.

Model Specific Features

There are 25, 37, 49, and 61 central versions of Launchkey. The differences between the devices are outlined below and model-specific features are noted throughout this guide.

Hardware Overview

Getting Connected

Connecting Launchkey with a Compute

Your Launchkey is USB double-decker-powered, meaning it turns on as soon as you connect it to your computer with a USB cablevision. When connecting Launchkey for the first time, visit Components to brand certain you have the latest firmware. This will make sure y'all have all the latest features enabled.
Notation: When connecting Launchkey to a Mac you may be shown the Keyboard Setup Assistant. This is because Launchkey as well functions as a computer keyboard device in order to enable the Navigate functionality. The Keyboard Setup Assistant can merely exist dismissed.

Connecting Launchkey with External MIDI Enabled Instruments

If you want to use the 5-pin DIN socket for MIDI output on your Launchkey without a computer, you tin power the unit with a standard USB power supply (5V DC, minimum 500mA).

Working with Ableton Live

Your Launchkey is designed to work seamlessly with Ableton Live, offering deep integration through powerful production and performance controls right out of the box. In addition, you can alter your Launchkey to adapt your needs with Custom Modes. Launchkey's functionality with Ableton Alive is detailed beneath

Installation

If you already ain Ableton Live ten so all yous need to do is open the program and plug in your Launchkey. If you don't yet ain Ableton Alive ten, register your Launchkey at novationmusic.com/
register to download and install your included re-create of Ableton Alive x Lite. If you accept never used Ableton Live before, we recommend visiting our Piece of cake Start Tool (see 'Getting Started'). There you'll discover videos covering installation, the software's bones features, and how to get started making music with your Launchkey.

Setup

With Ableton Alive installed, plug your Launchkey into your Mac or PC'southward USB port. When you open Live your Launchkey will be automatically detected and enter Session Mode.
If you lot printing Shift on your Launchkey your pad lights should look like the image beneath. The summit row of pads (bluish) select behavior or "Mode" of the Pots above, while the lower row of pads (dark-green) select the behavior or way of the pads. If a pad is red then that style is assigned to the faders (49 & 61 key models only).

If your pads exercise not resemble the image above you'll need to configure Live'south Control Surface Preferences. To do this, find the 'Link/MIDI' Preferences menu in Ableton Alive:

Windows: Options > Preferences > Link/MIDI
Mac: Live > Preferences > Link/MIDI

In the Link/MIDI tab you'll need to copy the settings shown above. Beginning, select your Launchkey MK3 from the Command Surface menu. Then, under Input select "Launchkey MK3 […] (LKMK3 DAW OUT)" or Launchkey MK3 MIDI IN2 (Windows) for output select "Launchkey MK3 […] (LKMK3 DAW IN)". Finally, match the Track, Sync, and Remote settings.
If you're having problem getting your Launchkey working with Ableton Alive, exist certain to visit our Easy Start Tool for video explanations.

Session Mode

Session way is designed to control Ableton Live's Session View. To access Session mode on your Launchkey hold Shift and press the "Session" pad (bottom left pad). The Session pad should burnish like this:

Session View is a grid that consists of clips, tracks, and scenes (shown below).

Launchkey's Session mode provides an eight×ii grid of the clips in your Session View. Example of Launchkey's pads in Session mode:

Clips are typically loops that contain MIDI notes or audio.

Tracks represent virtual instruments or audio tracks. MIDI clips placed on instrument tracks will playback on the musical instrument that is assigned to that runway.

Scenes are rows of clips. Launching a scene will launch all clips in that row. This means that you can arrange clips into horizontal groups (across tracks) to form a song structure, launching scene after scene to progress through a song.

Again, access Session style on your Launchkey past property Shift and pressing the Session pad (the lesser left pad).
In Session Way, the pads represent the grid of clips plant inside the colored rectangle in Ableton Alive'southward Session View. The image below shows such a rectangle (orange) extending from the left-most rails to the Master track:

Any changes you make to clip position or color within Ableton Alive volition be represented in the Session way of Launchkey. Unlit pads indicate empty clip slots.

You can navigate effectually Session View past pressing the ▲▼and the track ◄ ► buttons.

More specifically, y'all tin move the currently selected filigree of clips (within Ableton Alive's colored rectangle) up or downward. The ▲ button moves the filigree of clips upwardly i row. The ▼ button moves the filigree of clips down 1 row.
The track ◄ ► buttons will select the side by side left or right runway. This will automatically arm the track then that it is ready to receive MIDI.

Launching Clips

Pressing pads will launch clips in the corresponding location in your Session View. Pads volition pulse green to betoken that a prune is playing. Pressing the pad over again volition relaunch the clip, and pressing an empty pad volition cease playback on that track.
How fast clips stop or relaunch is fix by Ableton Live's Global Quantization Carte, located at the acme of the Live screen. By default, this is gear up to 1 bar, only tin get as fast as one/32 notes, or equally slow equally 8 bars. It tin can too be fix to 'None' so clips react immediately.

Launching Scenes

Pressing the Scene Launch push button (>) launches scenes in Ableton Live. This means that all of the clips in the peak row of the pad grid will get-go together.

Stop, Solo, Mute

While in Session fashion, it is possible to switch the functionality of the bottom eight pads then that they no longer launch clips. This is done with the Stop, Solo, Mute button.
The Cease, Solo, Mute button toggles between iv different states which affect tracks in the following ways:
Terminate (Red) – In this state, pressing a pad in the bottom row will terminate any clip on the corresponding runway. The red pads will glow dimly if tracks are not playing.

Solo (Bluish) – Pressing the pads volition solo the corresponding tracks, meaning merely tracks with Solo on will exist heard. The pads dimly glow if tracks are not soloed (i.e. they are silent). Soloed tracks glow a steady vivid blue.

Mute (Yellow) – Pressing pads will Mute the corresponding tracks. The pads will dimly glow for muted tracks, leaving pads for unmuted tracks at their original brightness and color.

Clips (Multi) – the fourth press (afterward toggling through Stop, Solo, and Mute) changes the function of lesser pads back to the default Session mode, where the bottom row of pads will again represent clips.

Record

Pressing this button triggers Session Tape while in Session Mode. This will allow you lot to record what you're playing to new clips as well every bit overdub existing clips.

Capture MIDI

Pressing this push triggers the Capture MIDI function. This allows you to retrospectively capture any recently played MIDI notes in the record-armed track. This ways that if you are non recording, only you play something that sounds great, you lot can apply Capture MIDI to send it straight into a clip.

Quantise

This button will quantize MIDI notes in the currently agile clip on the currently selected rail. This snaps the MIDI notes to the filigree, helping to keep them in time with the beat.

Click

Turns Ableton'southward metronome on/off.

Undo

Triggers the undo function.

Arm/ Select (61 & 49 Key Models Only)

The "Arm/ Select" button (highlighted in red below) is used to gear up the functionality of the viii "Fader Buttons'" (highlighted beneath in bluish) to either arm tracks, enabling recording; or to select a track.
While set to Arm the buttons light up scarlet when a rail is armed for recording and dim red when not.
Unlit buttons evidence that no rail is associated with the fader.

When prepare to Select the color of the buttons volition lucifer the tracks in Live. Pushing a Fader Push button (highlighted blue) will select that rails.

Drum Mode – Playing and Recording Drums

To enter Drum Way concur the Shift button and press the Drum pad (second from the bottom left).
Drum way transforms your Launchkey's pads into velocity-sensitive pulsate pads.

If a Drum Rack is loaded onto the selected Live track, and your Launchkey is in Drum style, the pads light up the color of the track. When played the pads volition calorie-free up green. These pads will play whatever Pulsate Rack pads are visible on your estimator screen. Pressing the ▲▼ buttons scrolls up/ down through a Drum Rack's banking company of 128 pads, each press moves upwards or downwards the rack in banks of sixteen.

When using Ableton's Drum Racks, Pulsate fashion will – apart from triggering sounds – select the associated Drum Rack pad within a Drum Rack. This means that on release, the terminal played Drum Rack pad lights upwardly white and Ableton Live shows the selected Pulsate Rack pad on the screen.

Using Ableton Live's Mixer

The eight Pots and 8 Faders (49 & 61 key models only) provide easily-on control over Ableton Alive's mixer. This allows you to control the Volume, Pan, Transport A and Send B levels of the tracks in your project.

Pots

The eight pots (knobs) can provide easily-on, rotary control over Ableton Live's mixer components. To forbid any sudden jumps in command when yous start turning the pots we take implemented a "Pot Pickup" function, this ways that the pots will but start controlling the parameter once it has been moved to the position it states within Live. For example, if a parameter is prepare to 0 in Alive y'all will need to plough the pot all the way to the leftmost limit for information technology to be picked up (this tin exist turned off in Live's preferences). When your Launchkey is continued to Live, the pots will automatically enter Device Mode, to assign the pots to Live'south Mixer (Volume, Pan, Sends) hold the Shift push, and press the labeled pads in the upper row.

Volume – This way allows you to control Rail Volumes using the pots. To select this manner, hold the Shift push button and press the Book pad

Pan Mode – This Manner allows you lot to control Track Pan values using the pots. To select this mode, concur the Shift button and press the Pan pad.

Sends Mode – This Mode allows you to control Rail Sends values using the pots. To select this mode, hold the Shift button and printing the Sends pad. On the offset printing, the pots will be assigned to Send A, on the second press they volition be assigned to Send B.

Note: a way cannot exist assigned to both the pots and the faders at the same fourth dimension. If a manner is already mapped to the Faders, then the corresponding pad will announced red while Shift is held, pressing a pad whilst in this state will not assign the Pots to that fashion.

Faders (49 & 61 Key Models Just)

The ix faders provide easily-on, linear command over a range of Ableton Live'south mixer parameters. To select 1 of these modes concur the Shift button (highlighted in red below) and press the corresponding Fader push button (highlighted in blue beneath). When your Launchkey is connected to Live, the faders volition default to Volume Mode. In this mode, the kickoff 8 faders command Ableton Rails Volumes. The 9th Fader always controls the Master Volume no thing what manner is selected. The faders can as well be set to control the Send A, Send B levels.

Note: a Style cannot be assigned to both the pots and the faders at the same time. If a mode is already mapped to the pots, and so the corresponding Fader button will appear ruby while Shift is held, pressing a Fader push whilst in this state will not assign the faders to that style.

Device Mode – Navigating and Controlling Devices

Device way allows you to control an Ableton "Device" (Ableton or 3rd-party instruments and effects) on a Alive runway. When your Launchkey is connected to Alive, the pots will automatically sync to the first device within the electric current Live track. Control over devices can as well be assigned to the Faders (49 & 61 key models only), to do this starting time ensure that the pots are non already assigned to Device way (a style cannot be assigned to both pots and faders at the same time) and so hold the Shift button and press the 1st Fader push button. To re-assign command over devices to the Pots hold the Shift button and press the first pad in the top row.

If the Track contains an Effect or Instrument Rack then the assigned faders or pots will sync to the first rack's 8 Macro Controls. The image below shows an Musical instrument Rack preset called 'Percussion 1'.
In this case, your Launchkey's 8 pots control a variety of important parameters including sample volumes, stretch and start times as well as the Dry out/Wet values of Filibuster and Reverb effects.

If the Rails does not contain a Rack and then Device Fashion will sync to a option of 8 curated parameters of the offset device. To navigate between devices on a track containing multiple come across 'Device Select/ Lock'.

Device Select

The "Device Select" push allows you to navigate through devices on a track. Press and agree this button to admission this function. The drum pads and ▲▼ arrow buttons will light up purple.

The▲▼ arrow buttons can exist used to navigate through the devices. The ▲ button going left and ▼ the push button moving to the right. The pads allow yous to choose which page of controls the area is decision-making. The screen displays which device is selected and the parameter being controlled.

Device Lock

The "Device Lock" push keeps the currently selected device and controls bank locked to the controls fifty-fifty if yous modify the selected runway. The button is lit when this feature is active.
To turn device lock-off press the Device Lock button again. Selecting a new device whilst the Device Lock push button is on volition lock the control to the newly selected device.

Transport Functions

The MIDI Buttons shown beneath provide key functionality for performing and recording with Ableton Live.

Play – Pressing this button will initiate playback of the track.
End – Pressing this button will cease the playback of the track.
Tape – Pressing this push button triggers Session Record while in Session Style. This will allow you to tape what you lot're playing to new clips as well as overdub existing clips.
Loop – Triggers Ableton's Loop Switch

Standalone Features

Grid

The Grid is made up of 2×8 velocity-sensitive pads. The standalone functions of the pads when Launchkey are detailed below.

Drum Mode

Hold Shift and press the Drum Mode pad (second from lesser left) to enter Drum Way. Whilst In this mode, the velocity-sensitive pads output MIDI notes from C1 to D#2 and volition exist lit bluish.

Chord Modes

Calibration Chord Manner

Scale Chord Mode provides you with banks of predefined chords. To access these banks but press the Scale Chord pad while holding the Shift button. Each row of pads volition now contain a bank of chords. The root key is C minor by default, to modify this see Scale Mode.

The first and last pad of each row lights upward more brightly than the middle pads to indicate root chord position. To navigate between pages of chords use the ▲▼ navigation buttons. On the first page, the top row of pads is lit bluish and contains triads, the bottom row of pads contains 7ths and is lit a darker blue. Pressing the ▼ button will reveal a row of 9ths, with the pads lit up in purple, below this are 6/9ths and the pads volition low-cal upwardly in pink.

When a pad is pressed information technology will calorie-free up light-green and return to its original color when released.
To change the octave of the chords only agree Shift and press the ▲▼ buttons, these provide access to a range of -3 to +iii octaves.

User Chord Style

In User Chord Way upward to six note chords tin be assigned to each pad. These chords will be saved to the Launchkey's internal retention and accessible between ability cycles, meaning that whatever assignments you lot make volition yet be bachelor even later on Launchkey is turned off and on again.
To enter User Chord Mode hold the Shift button and printing the User Chord pad (bottom row, fourth from the left).

To assign a chord to a pad merely press and hold the pad and press the notes that you want to assign from the keyboard. Upward to 6 notes tin can be assigned to each pad and can be input with private pushes of the keys, meaning you do not need to hold down all the notes at once then long every bit the pad is existence held.
When a chord is assigned the pad will light upwardly bluish. When the pad is pressed it will play the chord and light upwardly green. If no chord is assigned the pad volition non be lit.

To delete a chord assignment from a pad simply hold the stop/solo/mute button, the pads with assigned chords will turn red, pressing a ruddy pad volition delete the assigned chord, once deleted the pad will no longer be lit.

The ▲▼ buttons tin can be used to transpose the chord bank in semitones betwixt -12 and +12, whatever changes will be displayed on the screen.

Stock-still Chord

Fixed Chord lets you play a chord shape and and so transpose it by pressing other keys.
To set a chord press and concur the Fixed Chord push. So, while even so holding the button, press and release the keys that yous wish to be part of your chord. The chord is now stored.

Keep in mind that the beginning annotation that you input into the chord is considered the 'root note' of the chord, even if you lot so add notes lower than the outset ane, like in the example below, illustrating how to utilise the characteristic:

Printing and hold the Stock-still Chord push, and then press and release C, and so East, and finally Yard (a C Major chord). The unit stores this as the 'fixed chord'. Release the Fixed Chord push.
Major chords volition now audio on whatsoever key you printing. For example, you tin now press F to hear an F Major chord (shown below), or Ab to hear an Ab Major chord, etc.

Calibration Style

Calibration mode allows you lot to set the unabridged keyboard to only play notes in a calibration that you select. This allows you to play the keyboard without ever hit a wrong annotation! Press the "Scale" button to activate this fashion, the button will be lit indicating that the fashion is active. The screen will display a bulletin to point the currently active scale (C minor by default).

To change the scale you will need to access the scale settings, do this past holding the Shift push and pressing the Scale button. The Scale push will be flashing at this point to indicate that you are in scale settings. To change the root note but press the respective primal (note all the black keys will be represented as sharps #). Changing the scale type is done using the pads when in the scale setting they will wait like this:

The bottom row of pads will be lit and can be used to select a calibration, the selected scale is then shown on the screen. From left to right the pads can be used to select the following scales: Pocket-size, Major, Dorian, Mixolydian, Phrygian, Harmonic Minor, Minor Pentatonic, and Major Pentatonic.
To exit the scales setting mode printing the scale push or whatever of the function buttons. The settings mode will also time out after ten seconds of inactivity, with the keyboard returning to its previous state.

Custom Modes

The Launchkey knobs, pads, and faders (49 and 61 key models simply) can be configured to send custom messages using Novation Components. These custom message configurations are referred to as Custom Modes. To admission the custom modes printing Shift and the Custom Way Pads/Fader buttons.
Note that in standalone operation, Device, Volume, Pan, Sends, and Session modes are not available.

To access Components, visit components.novationmusic.com using a WebMIDI-enabled browser (we recommend Google Chrome or Opera). Alternatively, download the standalone version of Components from your Novation Business relationship page.

Pads

Launchkey has 4 pad Custom Modes. To access these Custom Modes just hold Shift and then press any of the four Pad Mode Custom buttons. Pads can be configured to transport MIDI notes, Program Changes messages, and CC letters using Components.
Your Launchkey comes with iv default custom pad modes that demonstrate the possibilities of this feature. From left to right the default pad modes offering the post-obit functionality:
Minor Scale: Each pad is a note in the C small-scale scale across 2 octaves.
Alt Drums: An culling to the Drum Fashion layout of notes for pulsate playing.
CC switches A section of CC switches for MIDI mapping with a row of momentary and a row of the toggle.
Programs 0-fifteen: First 16 programs changes for selecting your presets.

Pots

Launchkey has 4 pot Custom Modes. To access these Custom Modes just concord Shift and and so printing any of the four Pot Mode Custom buttons. Pots tin be configured with custom CC numbers using Components.

Faders (49 and 61 key models only)

Launchkey has 4 fader Custom Modes. To access these Custom Modes just hold Shift and then press whatsoever of the iv Fader Mode Custom buttons. Faders can be allocated custom CC numbers using Components.

Arpeggiator

Pressing the Arp button on the left of Launchkey enables the Arpeggiator which takes your chords and creates an arpeggio – i.due east. it plays each notation of the chord one afterwards another. The Arpeggiator will run every bit long as keys are held, at the rhythmic value specified by the Arp Rate.

Launchkey'due south Arp is a great way to come upwards with interesting melodies and progressions with ease.

Arpeggiator Rotary Pots

When you concur the Shift button the rotary pots can transform your arpeggios.

Tempo – This knob speeds upward or slows down your arpeggio relative to the Arp Rate. When Launchkey is used every bit a standalone controller, this knob ranges from sixty BPM to 187 BPM. However, when synced with Ableton Live, this knob will have no effect.
Swing – This knob sets the amount that every other note is delayed, resulting in a swung rhythm.
To change the Arpeggiator'due south Swing, press and hold the Arp button, and so plow the knob labeled Swing. Past default (center position), swing will be set to 0% (meaning no swing), with extremes of lxxx% (very swung) and -80% (negative swing). A negative swing means every other notation is rushed, instead of delayed.
Gate – Adjusting this knob will create longer or shorter MIDI notes, resulting in either a more 'staccato' arpeggio, or a more fluid, 'legato' one. This knob goes from 0% to 200% of the space betwixt notes. For notes that have swing applied, both notes retain the same gate length.
Mutate – After you select Mutate every bit the Arp Style, hold the Shift button and plough this knob to add variation to your arpeggio. A new 'mutation' occurs with each turn of the knob. When you stop turning the knob notes are ready and will echo indefinitely.
Deviate – After selecting Deviate equally your Arp Rhythm, turn this knob to make rhythmic variations. With every turn of this knob, you'll create a different pattern of rests.
Notation: the pots volition likewise control arp functions with Arp Control Lock active.

Arp Modes

Afterward turning on the Arp you'll exist in one of 7 Arpeggiator types, each resulting in arpeggios of different annotation orders. To modify the Arp Type, press and hold the Shift push button, and then printing the key corresponding to your desired way.

Upward – Here notes are played in ascending club (i.e. rise in pitch). If notes are added, the number of notes in the sequence will abound but remain in ascending order. For example, you may start past holding downward the first note – E3 – then quickly add two more notes – C3 and G3. The resulting arpeggio volition be C3, E3, and G3.
Down – This Fashion is similar to Up Mode, simply notes play in descending order (e.yard. G3, E3, C3).
Up/Down – This arpeggio Mode starts by playing notes in ascending order. So, after reaching the highest note, the notes descend towards the lowest note, which plays in one case before the arpeggio rises again and stops earlier reaching the lowest note. This means that when the pattern repeats, the lowest annotation only plays once.
Played – Here notes are kept repeated in whatsoever gild they were played.
Random – In this Mode, the order of the chord notes is randomized indefinitely.
Chord – All notes are played back on every rhythmic footstep (meet Arp Rate). This makes playing fast chords very easy.
Mutate – This mode creates its own notes and adds them to the arpeggio by turning the knob under the characterization 'Mutation'. But turn this knob to change your arpeggio in unexpected ways. The pot itself goes from 'gentle' (left) to 'crazy' (right) – i.e. 25% left will add subtle variation to your arpeggio, while 99% right will give you very unexpected results. When you're happy with what yous hear, end turning the knob. The notes are then set up and will repeat indefinitely.

Arp Rates

These options specify the speed of the arpeggiated notes. Since each note is played immediately afterwards the cease of the previous one, a shorter rate (eg. 1/32) will play an arpeggio faster than a longer one (e.g. 1/four).
Rate options are mutual musical note values: quarter (1⁄4), 8th (1/8), sixteenth (ane/16), and xxx-second (one/32) notes.
To alter the Arp Rate, press and hold the Arp button, and then press the cardinal beneath 1/iv, one/8, 1/sixteen, or 1/32.
Additionally, you can toggle triplet rhythms on/off for each of the in a higher place musical values by pressing the primal below 'Triplet'. This turns your arpeggio notes into the quarter, 8th, sixteenth, and 30-second note triplets.

Arp Octaves

These 4 keys specify how many octaves your arpeggio will echo. To modify, press and hold the Arp button, and then press the key below ane, 2, three, or 4. Choosing an octave higher than 1 will echo the arpeggio at higher octaves. For example, an arpeggio that was C3, E3, and G3 at 1 octave will become C3, E3, G3, C4, E4, and G4 when ready to 2 octaves.

Arp Rhythms

Arp Rhythms add musical rests (silent steps) to your arpeggio's pattern, allowing for greater variations in your arpeggios. Hold Arp then press one of the following keys:
Dots – These three options are rhythmic patterns.

O – The normal Arpeggiator setting, places a note on every division of the selected Arp rate.
OXO (note – rest – note) – This rhythm adds a residual betwixt every pair of notes.
OXXO (annotation – rest – rest – annotation) – This pattern adds two rests between every pair of notes.
Random – This option creates random rests for random lengths. Each step has a 50% take chances of being either a note or a rest. In the case that it is a rest, the annotation is shifted to the adjacent step and is not skipped.
Deviate – This is the most unique Arp Rhythm, and makes many variations of notes. It uses the Deviate rotary knob, where every plow creates a different residue pattern.

Latch

Latch lets you use the Arpeggiator without holding downwards keys. Any notes you lot printing and release meantime will course a new arpeggio pattern which the arpeggiator 'latches' onto. The arpeggiator and so continues to play every bit if you never released the keys. When you press a new key, the previous arpeggio erases, and a new one forms.
To plough on Latch, press and hold the Shift button, and and so press the Arp push.

Arp Control Lock

Long pressing the Arp push turns on Arp Command Lock and you will be notified on the screen. When Arp Control Lock mode is on, the Arp controls on the pots and pads are attainable directly without requiring a Shift press. This is useful for when you lot desire to jam with the arp using only one hand. The Arp push button LED will pulse while Arp Control Lock is turned on. Press the Arp button again to turn off Arp Command Lock.

Note: The symbols pictured below are reserved for functionality coming to the Launchkey in the future. Proceed an heart out for an upcoming Firmware update that volition unlock this functionality.

Octave Buttons

Pressing the Octave buttons will increment and decrement the keyboard octave by one. The bachelor octaves range from C-two to C8. Shift pressing the Octave buttons will transpose the keyboard up or downward past one semitone.

To reset the keyboard octave to 0 press the Octave +/- buttons at the same time. To reset the keyboard transposition to 0 Shift press the Octave +/- buttons at the same fourth dimension.

Settings

Pressing the Settings button brings up the settings menu on the screen. You can ringlet through the list of settings using the scene ▲▼ buttons. To arrange the values of the settings, either apply the pads or the rails ◄ ► buttons. The available settings are shown beneath.

Setting	Description	Value Range	Default
Keys MIDI Channel	Sets the MIDI channel for the Keys	i -sixteen	1
Chords MIDI Aqueduct	Sets the MIDI channel for the Scale Chord and User Chord	1 -sixteen	2
Drums MIDI Channel	Sets the MIDI channel for the Drum Manner	ane -16	x
Velocity Bend (Keys)	Select a velocity curve for the keys	Soft / Normal / Difficult / Off	Normal
Velocity Curve (Pads)	Select a velocity curve for the pads	Soft / Normal / Hard / Off	Normal
Pad Aftertouch	Gear up the Aftertouch type	Off / Aqueduct / Poly	Poly
Pad AT Threshold	Prepare the threshold in which the aftertouch kicks in	Low / Medium / Loftier	Normal
Pot Pick-upward	Turn pot pickup on/off	Off/On	Off
MIDI Clock Out	Turn MIDI clock out on/off	Off/On	On
Brightness	Accommodate the brightness of the pads and the screen	1-sixteen	9
Vegas Manner*	Turns on/off Vegas Mode*	Off/On	On

*Vegas Mode is the light show that is shown on the pads and fader buttons later a menses of inactivity.

Pot Pickup

Pot Pickup tin be turned on from the settings menu. When Pot Pickup is turned on your Launchkey will save the states of the various pages for the Pots and Faders. The control will just output MIDI when the control has been moved to the position of the saved country. This is to forbid any sudden jumps in the control value.
When the control is being moved and not picked up the screen will display the saved value until it has been moved to the pickup bespeak.

Navigation Fashion – ([…] Push)

Pressing the "…" button will put the Launchkey into a navigation fashion useful for browsing samples and presets. You will come across the pads low-cal up every bit illustrated below. The 4 blueish pads form a left, right, upwardly, and down keypad which replicates the cursor control keys on your computer keyboard. The greenish pad replicates the enter key on your computer keyboard. The pads can be used to scan and select presets and samples in your DAW or a software plugin too every bit any other function of a keyboard's cursor keys and enter push.

Working with Other DAWs

Launchkey can human action as a full general-purpose MIDI controller for Logic, Reason besides as a range of other DAWs using HUI (human user interface). In addition to the Annotation On/Notation Off messages sent from the keys, each of the pots, faders, and pads transmit a MIDI message that can be customized using Novation Components. This allows you to configure your device to use these messages as you wish.

Logic

Your Launchkey can serve as a controller for many tasks in Apple Logic Pro X. The behavior described in the Standalone Features section remains the same in Logic Pro X. In addition, you tin can alter your Launchkey to accommodate your needs with Custom Modes. At that place is also some functionality of the Launchkey that is dedicated to Logic Pro, this is detailed below.